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blue lander · 23rd May 2014, 06:44 PM

It does appear to be koftgari. Some of it is actually peeling up. It also has the tell tale crosshatching that the koftgari's applied to.

Edit: I should add that I'm obviously no expert on these things, but I do have a small Burmese Dao that has koftgari so I have handled the "real deal" before.

23rd May 2014, 06:44 PM	#2
blue lander Member Join Date: Nov 2013 Posts: 456	It does appear to be koftgari. Some of it is actually peeling up. It also has the tell tale crosshatching that the koftgari's applied to. Edit: I should add that I'm obviously no expert on these things, but I do have a small Burmese Dao that has koftgari so I have handled the "real deal" before. Last edited by blue lander; 23rd May 2014 at 07:02 PM.